Information Resources Centre

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• Information Resources Centre

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About Mt Eliza

• Australias only independent business school
  (est. by the business community in 1957)
• Two campuses
• Mt Eliza - Kunyung Rd, Mt Eliza
• Melbourne city - 380 St Kilda Rd
• Purpose-built teaching and conference facilities
• Offices in Sydney, Canberra and Beijing
• University of Queensland MBA partner since 2001
• 5 MBA programs (including China)
• Executive education and customised programs

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Overview Information Resource Centre (IRC)

• IRC client groups
• Mt Eliza IRC resources
• Electronic access via Mt Eliza Realm
• Database - Company Analysis example
• IRC City campus services and resources
• Mt Eliza campus IRC services
• University of Queensland (UQ) Cybrary services
  and resources

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IRC client groups

• Internal clients
• Mt Eliza faculty and staff
• Associate faculty

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IRC client groups

• External clients
• MBA students (on campus St Kilda Rd facility, 10
  week, 4 quarter terms per year)
• Executive MBA students (modular residential
  courses at Mt Eliza, remote IRC services
  required)
• Executive MBA (Business Operations)
• Executive MBA (weekend delivery at Mt Eliza)
• Executive programs (UQ and non-UQ)
• Award program residential courses up to 2 weeks
  per visit
• Non-award program residential courses up to 8
  days
• Frontline programs (on and off campus for
  supervisor level)
• Customised programs (specific programs for client
  groups held on and off campus)

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Mt Eliza IRC Resources

• Specialised management and business books
• Hard copy management and business journals
• Course study readings - recommended articles
  selected by faculty
• Training and management videos
• Daily copies of Australian newspapers and the
  Asian Wall Street Journal
• Laptop-friendly laser printer and photocopier
• Helpful staff to assist on-site
• Electronic resources and remote access

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Electronic access via Mt Eliza Realm
http//www.mteliza.com.au

• ABI/Inform - ProQuest and ProQuest Asian Business
• Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business
  Briefing - soon to convert to Factiva
• Selected Australian industry reports from
  IBISWorld
• Jobsons online
• Company Analysis (on-campus access only)

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Company Analysis (CD-ROM)

• Available on-site at the City campus IRC
• Comprehensive source of historical company
  accounts, image-based data and corporate
  profiles
• Covers the Asia-Pacific region
• Data can be exported to an MS-Excel spreadsheet
  and used for assignments

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Company Analysis - Example 1
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Company Analysis - Example 2
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IRC City campus services

• Exclusive use for MBAs and clients
• Open 7 days a week 10 am - 8 pm weekdays 10 am
  - 4 pm weekends
• State-of-the-art facilities
• IRC online catalogue (DB/Textworks - Inmagic)
• Counter reserve collection
• Remote access to Mt Eliza IRC and UQ Cybrary
• Food and beverages permitted
• Experienced and dedicated staff

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Mt Eliza campus IRC

• Book and hard-copy journal collection
• IRC open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week
• IRC staffed Monday-Friday 830 am - 6 pm
• Electronic conversion of course study readings
  for reading lists
• Journal alerts to faculty via email
• IRC staff database of requests for service from
  staff and students - fully indexed for follow-up
  and referral

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UQ Cybrary services

• Available to Mt Eliza-UQ award program students
• Online database access to UQ Cybrary
• Over 400 databases, full text, abstracted
  indexed
• Over 40 specific business management databases
  to supplement the IRC Mt Eliza databases
• Document delivery
• Books and journal articles
• Access to 2 million books and 18,000 journals
• Virtual reference collection

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IRC Mt Eliza staff contact details

• Mark Suares City campus IRC
• Information Resources ManagerPhone 61 3 8696
  6631Email irccity_at_mteliza.com.au
• Cinty Humphries - Mt Eliza campus IRC
• Information Resource Manager, Mt
  ElizaPhone 61 3 9215 1138Email irc_at_mteliza.co
  m.au